A Conversation About Culture, Copies, Recognition and the Need to Be Seen “Fanfiction,” I said, “is what happens when people still feel the need to make things, but the available…
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The Invisible Republic: What AO3’s Most-Loved Stories Reveal About Who We Are
Fanfiction is the largest body of unpaid, un-commissioned narrative writing in human history. It is also, arguably, the most honest. No one is writing a 7.9-million-word fic for money. They are writing it because the story they needed did not exist, and they could not live in a world where it remained unwritten.